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is a form of neuroticism whereby, one doesn't think oneself important but can nevertheless stop thinking about oneself.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. . . I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me. Henry Miller

is, along with capitalism, simply what results when the supremacy of reason is recognized and applied.

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism... and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows. This the supremacy of reason was, is and will be the primary concern of my work, and the essence of Objectivism.

is not a positive thing, but rather, a bad interpretation of the will, because in order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego, which there is not.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III 'Of the three evil things'). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego. Gilles Deleuze

is the moving force of the world, just as altruism is its morality. These two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism. Joseph Conrad

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. Friedrich Nietzsche

is the law of perspective applied to feelings: What is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a swelled head that is mistaken for a halo.

The man with a swelled head often mistakes it for a halo.

is detectable by that faraway look an egoist gets in their eyes when the conversation turns to someone else.

You can always tell an egotist by the faraway look that comes into his eyes when the conversation turns to someone else.

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